Kinda Lucid Puppy is a 4.3.1-based puplet for general usage. It is built to be better-looking, modern and suitable for multimedia than 4.3.1: one puplet to rule them all.

The difference between KLP and the original 4.3.1 is noticeable in 4 areas:
- Newer, updated stuff: Abiword, Gnumeric, Pmusic, Pburn, xine-lib and more. In two cases, 4.3.1 applications are replaced: Seamonkey with Opera and Pprocess with LXTask. The newer versions fix many of the severe bugs in 4.3.1, such as the ROX focus bug and the huge file chooser bug. Also, some unneeded applications are removed - for instance, Pcdripper is removed because Asunder is better and already included.
- Multimedia - KLP supports many new audio/video formats that 4.3.1 doesn't, including XviD, MPEG-4 and FLV, thanks to the upgraded multimedia packages.
- Woof - since the release of 4.3.1 Barry added many changes and improvements to Woof: a man replacement, a replacement for the old yaf-splash, clean unmount of save files and much more. KLP has them. Also, KLP has some stuff backported from later puppies, like the Lucid Puppy first-run wizard.
- Artwork - KLP looks great

To sum up, Kinda Lucid Puppy is a "generic" puplet that offers all traditional Puppy stuff and sticks with Puppy tradition of small size and home-made applications, while providing a better usage experience.

Who is it for?

The target audience of this puplet is all Puppy users, especially people that need multimedia capabilities in their puplet, Opera fans, Puppy 4.x fans and people with hardware that doesn't get along with Lucid Puppy.

005:
- Updated: GTK from 2.14.7 to 2.16.16 (the 4.3.1 file chooser bug is fixed!), glib from 2.18.3 to 2.20.5, pwireless 0.8.4 to pwireless2, Tar from 1.19 to spup's patched 1.22, Moo from 009 to 010.
- Removed: Psip, PPLOG, Quisp, Hiawatha and the podcast grabber.
- Added: flsynclient, synclient and xz.
- Global system font set, much better fonts in Opera, GTK themes work better, the Raleigh GTK theme now works perfectly.
- Fixed Opera n' CUPS problem.
- Fixed the help page and the welcome page.
- Updated Woof to the version used to build Slackpup 0.4 beta.
- All Puppy MIME-type icons I removed are back now.
- New wallpaper, taken from GNOME
- Major cleanup in /usr/share and /usr/local.
- Ships without sc0ttman's optional save thingy and the SFSs from psubdir thingy, they're quite controversial, so I removed them.
- Rebuilt directly from the Puppy 4.3.1 ISO

004
- Replaced: Ayttm with Pidgin.
- Removed: cgtkcalc and ycalc (2 calculators, the other two are still there), mp (one console text editor, e3 is still there), NicoEdit, gfnrename, gplanarity, pstopwatch, Rubix, Xemeraldia, xsoldier, ctorrent, pctorrent, Axel, Uget, PictureViewer (what is that for?), pCD, pcdripper (Asunder is better) zfind and some wallpapers (the solid color and version-specific wallpapers).
- Updated: Pmusic from 1.0 to 1.0.1.
- Opera’s license moved to /usr/share/doc/legal.
- New artwork: a new icon set based on Gnome-Colors and the GNOME icon set and a new wallpaper taken from KDE.
- New icon/folder icons from GNOME.
- Some menu items removed (top, alsamixer).
- Removed some leftovers from the old 4.3.1 Abiword, PuppyBrowser, Seamonkey and Aqualung.
- Way more solid, more polished.

003
- Replaced fonts - Puppy comes with DejaVu LGC fonts, a slightly smaller variant of the DejaVu fonts that includes only Euorpean languages. I replaced them with the "normal" DejaVu fonts to support languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.
- Way better artwork, great contrast and a better choice of colors - a blend of black with blue, red and violet (see the screenies!)
- Tiny clean-up, the removal Seamonkey left some .desktop files.
- Updated Moo with a small fix.
- Some polish.

001
- Replaced: Aqualung with Pmusic, Pprocess with LXTask, the ancient absvolume with Retrovol, the old free memory and network applets with Quirky's.
- Added: Bones, woo-ff, Precord, pupRadio, the Moo remaster tool (it was used to build KLP).
- Upgraded: the CPU scaling wizard, the JWM configuration wizard, the network wizard, the classic network wizard, Pburn, pCD, Pfilesearch, Pfind, PMirrorget, Pschedule, You2pup, the SFS converter, Rox and JWM to their Quirky versions.
- The Woof skeleton is upgraded, so you get the new gtk-splash, clean unmount on shutdown, Barry's simple network setup wizard and various improvements.
- Flash 10.1.53.64 (the one with that serious vulnerability fixed) instead of the aging Flash 9 that YouTube and many sites no longer support.
- A slightly modified version of Lucid Puppy's first run wizard: I modified it to automatically detect the running Puppy name and version, removed some incorrect labels and changed the text.
- Lucid Puppy's artwork.

Two notes:
1) Use the 4.3.1 devx as the devx, it's OK. I suggest you to compile stuff on a vanilla 4.3.1, because this one has many stuff updated and your packages may end up incompatible with 4.3.1.
2) Each version is in its own directory. You can update previous versions with the deltas I provided

Cheers!

Credit goes to DaveS for many useful PETs and suggestions, thank you so much!

Thanks to KLP I'm officially in love with Opera ... and I'd like you to know that working on this puplet really improved my knowledge about Puppy and my l33t Linux haxx0r skillz

I must admit I'm very very pleased with KLP 006, despite the pessimism and low self-esteem I've always had

If there's anything wrong or bad with KLP, feel free to share it with me and everybody else, I'm a perfectionist and I want 007 (if there is a 007) to be PERFECT.

I booted first into quirky1.0 and installed KLP frugally and then rebooted into KLP and it told me that there was no driver for my LAN. Sadly I have no idea what my lan card is. I have a poor memory but I have tried all four ways to activate it. SNS usually works best on the other puppies and them have no problem at all. Only at most three Puppies out of some 30 tested behave as KLP does.

So I don't think it is me that have done anything. Are you sure your KLP is as good as Quirky is? Friendly Smile.

Iguleder, did you upgrade Gnumeric? The latest fixes some important bugs that were still present in 4.3.1?
Does Opera work with CUPS? I failed to get that to work a while back. Maybe you have left PuppyBrowser in for CUPS?_________________Spup Frugal HD and USB
Root forever!

I'm still working on the multimedia overhaul, recompiled many things, but I'm looking for a way to remove all old stuff from 4.3.1, it's very complicated because they're split between the main SFS and the devx._________________My homepageMy GitHub profile

I tested all three network ways to do it but none of them worked and I failed to find the nvidia or HP LAN driver to use._________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

All boots up and sets up nicely on my system. Gnumeric update works but needs a symlink in usr/bin symlink gnumeric-1.10 as gnumeric.
From set up menu, set up mouse/keyboard offers option to set up touchpad, but fisynclient is not installed, so menu entry plays dead.
Tried to update Abiword to latest but it got a bit complex so will wait till 02/opera.
Nice to be messin with 4.3.1 again, its so snappy._________________Spup Frugal HD and USB
Root forever!

I have compiled newer versions, and the new ffmpeg/xine-lib now support FLV, x264, WebM and all the fancy stuff.

I'm currently working on transplanting the new versions, compiled them all, they work just fine. I kept the old gxine because the new one uses 2 windows by default, I can supply it with default settings that disable that, but if the old one works, why change? _________________My homepageMy GitHub profile

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